254 BC - 184 BC
Titus Maccius Plautus (, PLAW-təs; c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Plautus has received more than 865,544 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Plautus is the 115th most popular writer (up from 123rd in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Italy (up from 131st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Writer.
Plautus is most famous for his comedic plays.
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Among writers, Plautus ranks 115 out of 5,755. Before him are François Rabelais, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico García Lorca, Mary Shelley, and François Villon. After him are Václav Havel, Sully Prudhomme, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Yukio Mishima, Henry David Thoreau, and Paul Verlaine.
1494 - 1553
HPI: 76.12
Rank: 109
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 110
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 111
1898 - 1936
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 112
1797 - 1851
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 113
1431 - 1463
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 114
254 BC - 184 BC
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 115
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 116
1839 - 1907
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 117
1776 - 1822
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 118
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 119
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 120
1844 - 1896
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 121
Among people born in 254 BC, Plautus ranks 1. After him are Quintus Fabius Pictor and Machanidas. Among people deceased in 184 BC, Plautus ranks 1. After him is Emperor Qianshao of Han.
254 BC - 184 BC
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 1
254 BC - 201 BC
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 2
254 BC - 207 BC
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 3
Among people born in Italy, Plautus ranks 126 out of 4,668. Before him are Sulla (-138), Cesare Borgia (1475), Pope Pius III (1439), Pope Urban VIII (1568), Pope Clement I (40), and Pope Gregory XVI (1765). After him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Donato Bramante (1443), Pope Gregory IX (1160), Numa Pompilius (-753), Pope Gregory XV (1554), and Anselm of Canterbury (1033).
138 BC - 78 BC
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 120
1475 - 1507
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 121
1439 - 1503
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 122
1568 - 1644
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 123
40 - 99
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 124
1765 - 1846
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 125
254 BC - 184 BC
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 126
1463 - 1494
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 127
1443 - 1514
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 128
1160 - 1241
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 129
753 BC - 673 BC
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 130
1554 - 1623
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 131
1033 - 1109
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 132
Among writers born in Italy, Plautus ranks 11. Before him are Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), and Cato the Elder (-243). After him are Carlo Collodi (1826), Catullus (-84), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Pliny the Younger (61), Juvenal (50), and Luigi Pirandello (1867).
1313 - 1375
HPI: 83.11
Rank: 5
65 BC - 8 BC
HPI: 82.14
Rank: 6
1932 - 2016
HPI: 79.11
Rank: 7
1725 - 1798
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 8
1511 - 1574
HPI: 78.27
Rank: 9
243 BC - 149 BC
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 10
254 BC - 184 BC
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 11
1826 - 1890
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 12
84 BC - 54 BC
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 13
1880 - 1918
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 14
61 - 113
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 15
50 - 200
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 16
1867 - 1936
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 17